Is this the face of a guy in LA who kidnapped/raped/held captive a woman for 10 years?

by sanjosebarstool

KTLA – A 41-year-old Bell Gardens man has been arrested after a woman whom he allegedly kidnapped, raped and held captive for nearly 10 years came forward with her story, according to Santa Ana police.

The victim was 15 years old in August 2004, when her mother reported that she and her boyfriend Garcia went missing “after a domestic violence incident.”Isidro Garcia was taken into custody on Tuesday on suspicion of kidnapping for rape, lewd acts with a minor and false imprisonment, the Santa Ana Police Department announced Wednesday.

The mother believed Garcia, who lived with the family, had been sexually abusing the teen, but had no proof, according to police. After recently contacting her sister on Facebook, the victim “eventually gained the courage to contact the police,” according to a Police Department news release.

She said that Garcia began sexually assaulting her in June 2004 while they both lived at the family’s home in the 800 block of South Fairview Street in Santa Ana (map). Then, in August, Garcia assaulted the mother, drugged the victim and drove her to a house in Compton, the victim told police. He allegedly gave her fake identification papers and locker her in a garage overnight.

“Over the course of the following months and years, Garcia repeatedly told the victim her family had given up looking for her, and if she tried to go back to them, the family would be deported,” the news release stated.

Garcia allegedly frequently assaulted the victim sexually and physically, and the couple repeatedly moved to avoid police. They worked at a nighttime cleaning service so that Garcia “could keep a close eye on the victim,” according to police.

“Even with the opportunity to escape, after years of physical and mental abuse, the victim saw no way out of her situation and lived a life with Garcia under sustained physical and mental abuse,” the news release stated. Garcia forced her to marry him in 2007, police said, and she bore him a child in 2012. The case against Garcia has been submitted to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office for consideration.

How of many of these Ariel Castro’s are there out there? Just an awful, awful story but glad the woman finally got away from her captor because this is some straight depressing shit. He didn’t chain her up in the house but making her work with him at a cleaning job? This guy must have terrified the shit out of her to get her stay put. It’s pretty unfathomable to try and put yourself in an ordeal like this because this type of scum specifically go after these vulnerable women so we can’t pass any judgement on how long it took them to get the courage to scream for help.

Worst of all, you feel for the kid who’s life just totally got flipped on it’s head because s/he is going to find out her dad was a monster. A monster that looks like the rebel alliance pilot who flew with Lando to blow up the death star.